Presented at Association of Caribbean Universities, Research and Institutional Libraries, Paramaribo, Surinam.

1. Prof. Purísima Centeno Alayón
http://uprrp.academia.edu/PuraCenteno
The Development of an Online Serials
Publication Service with SubjectsPlus
Open Source Software for the
Natural Science Community, at the
University of Puerto Rico,
Río Piedras Campus

2. Background
• Academic library specialized in natural sciences
• Support graduated and subgraduated curricula
• Serves more than 3,000 students and over 200
professors
• Scientific journals are the more important resource for this
community
• CITec provides more than 5,000 titles in relevant
temathics in pure sciences

3. Situation
• Since 2006, a list about journals from databases and
independent sellers were shown in a webpage
athttp://bcn.uprrp.edu
• That list, called in a webpage Lista de Revistas A-Z, takes
a long time to be updated because it includes more than
5,000 titles.
• Updated list in Frontpage sent to web master to become
part of the webpage
• The process took months, and, sometimes, some
information were not currently.
• Users can find errors because of changes in database or
journals subscriptions affecting the service

4. Situation
Receive data
Put together in a list
Sent to webmaster
Webmaster create
pages
Appears in
webpage
Auxiliary librarian
Web master
Takesmonths
Web page

5. Methodology
• Workplan based in ADDIE process model
• Software solution to add, update or delete data about
natural sciences journals and show in the webpage, in
real time
• New titles
• Edited titles

6. Analysis and Design
ADDIE: methodology used for instructional design. Each letter represent a step
for analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation.
• Analysis
• Considered statistics of service and comments from audience and employees
• Found that the process to update information could make it imprecisely
• Software solution were considered because of capability to see changes in real time
• SubjectsPlus, from Ithaca College, were selected because is free to use and to
customize
• Design
• A prototipe was installed to make tests. During this step, the software is adapted to
the information needs identified in Analysis step.
• Two interfaces were considered in Design step: A to Z journals and acces to journals
through disciplines

7. Development, Implementation and Evaluation
• Development
• Three employees worked in the project: Mr. Víctor Soto, auxiliary librarian; Mrs.
Xiangqing Zhu, web manager, and Prof. Purísima Centeno, responsible for the initiative
• Software installation requires
• MySQL, PHP and JavaScript
• Activities consisted in data entry, customization of software and project supervision
• Implementation
• Since september 2013, it were used to enter data from over 5,000 titles.
• On January 2014, URL were shared with some professors and students to obtain
recommendations (enlace
(http://bcn.uprrp.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/BCN_Guide.php)
• Google Analytics script was integrated in webpage to obtain statisctis of use.
• Evaluation
• Continuos process that consider employees and academic community comments
• User statistics
• Through link checker tool provided by SubjectPlus software

8. Standarized information for titles
Title
• With url if available
Volume
• Vol. 26-49
Year
• 2000-2011
Name
before
• Before: Genetic Analysis Techniques and Applications
Change to
• Change to: Biomolecular Engineering
Note
• Classification number

9. A to Z list
Before After

10. Now:
letter J
page

11. Journals by Discipline
Before After
http://bcn.uprrp.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/BCN_Guide.php

12. New Aspects
Journals Searcher Updated disciplines
http://bcn.uprrp.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/BCN_Guide.php

13. New Aspects
Search by format Search by discipline

14. SubjectPlus: platform
Format selection Disciplines selection

15. Teamwork
Programmer
Mrs. Xiangqing Zhu
Auxiliary Librarian
Sr. Víctor SotoLibrarian
Prof. Pura Centeno